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Private Journal to Printed Essay: A Teen Writing Workshop

Join celebrated YA author, Margo Rabb, after her Concord Free Public Library book event for a virtual writing workshop designed especially for teens. Learn techniques to start a journal writing practice and discover how journaling can help all your writing - from fiction to essays - and even have fun in the process! This workshop will be especially helpful for high school students hoping to enter their work in the new CCHS Concord Young Writers Award contest as part of the Concord Festival of Authors.

Tuesday, June 8 at 8:30 - 9:30 pm 

FREE to and open to all high school students. Register to receive your Zoom link!

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Margo Rabb is the author of the novels Lucy Clark Will Not Apologize, Kissing in America, and Cures for Heartbreak. Kissing in America was named a best book of the year by the New York Public Library, the Chicago Public Library, and the American Library Association, and was named to the Amelia Bloomer Project’s List of Recommended Feminist Literature. Her essays, journalism, book reviews, and short stories have been published in The New York Times, The New York Times Book Review, The Atlantic, Slate, Salon, Marie Claire, The Rumpus, Zoetrope: All-Story, Seventeen, Best New American Voices, New Stories from the South, One Story, and elsewhere, and have been broadcast on NPR. She received the grand prize in the Zoetrope short story contest, first prize in The Atlantic fiction contest, first prize in the American Fiction contest, and a PEN Syndicated Fiction Project Award. Margo grew up in Queens, New York, and now lives in the Philadelphia area with her family. Visit her online at www.margorabb.com.

Earlier Event: June 7
Monday Night Meditation
Later Event: June 9
Whole Being Restorative Practice